Politifact.com: Stories mentioning JB Pritzkerhttp://www.politifact.com/personalities/jb-pritzker/Stories or blog posts about JB Pritzker from Politifact.comen-usTue, 03 Apr 2018 07:00:00 -0400When it comes to Illinois’ deficit, how bad is bad?http://www.politifact.com/illinois/article/2018/apr/03/when-it-comes-illinois-deficit-how-bad-bad/It should be no surprise to anyone keeping tabs on Illinois government dysfunction that a history-making, two-year budget impasse dug state finances, already in a hole, into a far deeper one. Just how deep, and whose fingerprints are on the shovel, are questions that almost surely will be intensely debated in the runup to the November election. Newly anointed Democratic nominee for governor J.B. Pritzker wasted little time recently seizing on dire-sounding numbers in a new report stamped by the Illinois Auditor General. &quot;Rauner Deficit Increased 52% in FY17 to $14.6 Billion,&quot; Pritzker&rsquo;s campaign proclaimed in a news release that ... <a href="/illinois/article/2018/apr/03/when-it-comes-illinois-deficit-how-bad-bad/">>>More</a>Tue, 03 Apr 2018 07:00:00 -0400http://www.politifact.com/illinois/article/2018/apr/03/when-it-comes-illinois-deficit-how-bad-bad/